On the heels of Apple’s third-quarter results earlier this week, U.S. wireless partner AT&T has just announced their own second-quarter revenue -- and they’re wearing a smile, with lots of new iPhone activations and 10 times the number of iPhone 4s sold compared to last year’s iPhone 3GS.
9to5Mac is reporting that AT&T has logged “the highest number of iPhone activations ever” in its second quarter as they happily continue to steal business away from wireless rivals such as Verizon and Sprint.
The telco giant’s financial results announced Thursday morning show that AT&T activated a whopping 3.2 million iPhones in the last quarter. With a total revenue of $30.8 billion, it’s not hard to imagine that the iPhone certainly made a big chunk of that possible. AT&T claims that they are activating new iPhone 4s at a rate of 10 times last year’s iPhone 3GS model.
"On June 24, AT&T began offering iPhone 4, the most powerful iPhone yet,” the company said in a press release. “Preorder sales of iPhone 4 were 10 times higher than the first day of preordering for iPhone 3GS a year earlier. For the full second quarter, AT&T iPhone activations totaled 3.2 million, the most quarterly iPhone activations ever. Approximately 27 percent of those activations were for customers who were new to AT&T.”
The total number of postpaid 3G devices on AT&T’s network increased by 2.9 million to a whopping 29.7 million, an increase of 98.2 year over year and 10.8 percent sequentially.
Of course, with new rumors that the iPhone 4 may be coming to wireless rival T-Mobile later this year, it’s anyone’s guess if AT&T’s gravy train may have some bumpy track laying ahead.
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